It is a common problem in many catalogs/book list to find hundreds of
books
listed under 'a', 'an', 'the', etc. where they actually become very
difficult
to find.
The common reader/researcher remembers only [if at all] the actual
titles of
the books [like 'Bhagavata Purana', 'Mahabharata' and 'Padma Purana']
and goes
and search them under the letters 'b', 'm' or 'p' and not under the
letter 't'
[for 'the'].

Of course the list of the 'small words' should be editable/customizable
, for
serving the needs of other languages than English.